Ma and Pa Kettle at Home

80 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBox office$1.75 million (US and Canada rental)^[1][2]

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home is a 1954 American comedy film directed by Charles Lamont. It is the sixth, and also most successful, installment of Universal-International's Ma and Pa Kettle series starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride.

Plot

The Kettles' son Elwin enters a scholarship contest by submitting a report on farming techniques to a national magazine. The essay claims that his family's own farm is a model of modern efficiency. The magazine's editor, intrigued, insists on visiting the farm himself. Ma and Pa Kettle try to camouflage their ramshackle farm to reflect Elwin's visualization, while trying to keep the fastidious editor from inspecting the premises too closely.

Cast

Production

The role of the magazine's fussy editor was written for character comedian Edward Everett Horton, who agreed to make the film. A last-minute scheduling conflict forced Horton to withdraw, and the role was taken instead by Alan Mowbray.

Release

Critical response

Film critic Leonard Maltin considers Ma and Pa Kettle at Home as "the best entry in the Ma and Pa Kettle series."^[3]

References

External links

• Ma and Pa Kettle at Home at IMDb
• Ma and Pa Kettle at Home at the TCM Movie Database
• Ma and Pa Kettle at Home at AllMovie
• Ma and Pa Kettle at Home at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films